Like Barack Obama, Nancy
Pelosi is also confident that the Supreme Court will uphold
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

In fact, she thinks the high court will uphold it by a wide
margin.

"Me, I'm predicting 6-3 in favor," Pelosi said at the Paley Center for Media in New York on
Tuesday. "But we'll see. It's a lesson in civics, and I respect
it. I respect the court and judicial review."

There was no follow-up question -- moderator and Paley Center CEO
Pat Mitchell then turned to the subject of birth control and
reproductive rights. But it's not hard to see that Pelosi thinks
that not only will the court's resident "swing vote" Anthony
Kennedy lean in favor of the government, but Chief Justice
John
Roberts will also join that side. The three dissenting votes
would come from conservatives Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and
Samuel Alito.

Pelosi's prediction is rather bold in the sense that she is
perhaps the highest authority to predict such a specific and wide
margin of victory. It also marks a shift from her position last
week, when she said she had "no idea" how the Supreme Court would
rule the legislation.

“I have no idea. None of us does,” Pelosi told reporters,
according to ABC News. “We are all now
talking about something of which we have no knowledge because
we’re not members of the Supreme Court. We have knowledge of the
legislation [and] knowledge of the arguments, but we have no idea
what the outcome will be.”

Pelosi's confidence was as brash as Obama's, but unlike the
president she did not sternly warn the court of "judicial
activism" if it ends up striking down the legislation. She
emphasized to the audience the benefits of the bill and the 80
million people she said it already helps.

"We can't roll that back," she said. "So we have to find a way to
keep it. Again, speaking in the theoretical, I think the bill
will be upheld. But we really do have to find a way to keep what
is in the bill and what is coming."

Also last week, Rep. John Conyers, the top Democrat on the
Judiciary committee, told ABC that he
expected the law to be upheld by a slimmer margin.

“My feeling is that, and I’m predicting this, is that we will
have a 5-4 decision supporting the mandatory provision,” Conyers
said. “I’ll be checking with you in June to see which one of us
were correct.”